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Chikungunya virus and central nervous system infections in children, India.

Penny Lewthwaite, Ravi Vasanthapuram, Jane C Osborne, Ashia Begum, Jenna L M Plank, M Veera Shankar, Roger Hewson, Anita Desai, Nick J Beeching, Ravi Ravikumar, Tom Solomon
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2009 Februrary
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus best known for causing fever, rash, arthralgia, and occasional neurologic disease. By using real-time reverse transcription-PCR, we detected CHIKV in plasma samples of 8 (14%) of 58 children with suspected central nervous system infection in Bellary, India. CHIKV was also detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of 3 children.

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